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  1. 2024-12-11
    Panoramas as Projections of the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.Julie Boldt, James Elkins, Arthur Kolat & Daniel Weiskopf - 2024 - In Molly C. Briggs, Thorsten Logge & Nicholas C. Lowe (eds.), Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 105-119.
    This essay explores a theory of panoramas put forward by the experimental postwar German novelist and translator Arno Schmidt. Schmidt claims that panoramas were so pervasive in the visual culture of the nineteenth century that they unconsciously influenced writers of the period, so that when they wanted to describe vast landscapes they unthinkingly framed their descriptions by drawing on experience with specific panoramas. He primarily expounds the theory in his longest work of fiction, Zettel’s Traum (1970), translated as Bottom’s Dream (...)
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  2. 2024-12-10
    Capacities-First Philosophy.Susanna Schellenberg - 2023 - In Brian McLaughlin & Jonathan Cohen (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 406-429.
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  3. 2024-12-10
    Technology of Neo-Colonial Epistemes.Anaïs Nony - 2019 - Philosophy Today 63 (3):731-744.
    This article reevaluates the historical conditions of the concomitant rise of computational systems and DNA-coding in the 1950s and addresses the implementation of behavioral psychology and cybernetic technologies of control after the Second World War. From this historical perspective, this article interrogates the intersectional relation that automatic systems of control share with models of segregation and structures of knowledge oppression. It engages with the work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon and poses Simondon’s cybernetic theory as an opportunity to question systems (...)
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  4. 2024-12-10
    On the assumptions underlying KS-like contradictions.José Acacio de Barros, Juan Pablo Jorge & Federico Holik - manuscript
    The Kochen-Specker theorem is one of the fundamental no-go theorems in quantum theory. It has far-reaching consequences for all attempts trying to give an interpretation of the quantum formalism. In this work, we examine the hypotheses that, at the ontological level, lead to the Kochen-Specker contradiction. We emphasize the role of the assumptions about identity and distinguishability of quantum objects in the argument.
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  5. 2024-12-10
    Biology in the Timaeus’ Account of Nous and Cognitive Life.Douglas R. Campbell - 2024 - In Melina G. Mouzala (ed.), Cognition in Ancient Greek Philosophy and its Reception: Intedisciplinary Approaches. Academia Verlag/Nomos. pp. 145-172.
    I develop an account of the role that biology plays in the Timaeus’ view of nous and other aspects of cognitive life. I begin by outlining the biology of human cognition. I then argue that these biological views shine an important light on different aspects of the soul. I then argue that the human body is particularly friendly to nous, paying special attention to the heart and the liver. I next consider the ways that the body fails to protect our (...)
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  6. 2024-12-10
    Grounding and Inference to the Best Explanation: A Novel Argument for Theism.Joshua Sijuwade - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):925-70.
    This article presents a novel argument for the existence of God based on the metaphysical concept of grounding. Using the methodology of Inference to the Best Explanation, as conceptualised by Peter Lipton, it evaluates six foundationalist theories: Trope-Theoretic Theism, Monistic Substantivalism, Pure Stuff Theory, Mereological Bundle Theory, Extended Simples Theory, and Priority-Based Structural Realism-for their ability to explain the existence of grounding relations in reality. Through rigorous internal and external assessments focusing on coherence, simplicity, unification, and evidential virtues, the paper (...)
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  7. 2024-12-10
    Generative AI in the Creative Industries: Revolutionizing Art, Music, and Media.Mohammed F. El-Habibi, Mohammed A. Hamed, Raed Z. Sababa, Mones M. Al-Hanjori, Bassem S. Abu-Nasser & Samy S. Abu-Naser - 2024 - International Journal of Academic Engineering Research(Ijaer) 8 (10):71-74.
    Abstract: Generative AI is transforming the creative industries by redefining how art, music, and media are produced and experienced. This paper explores the profound impact of generative AI technologies, such as deep learning models and neural networks, on creative processes. By enabling artists, musicians, and content creators to collaborate with AI, these systems enhance creativity, speed up production, and generate novel forms of expression. The paper also addresses ethical considerations, including intellectual property rights, the role of human creativity in AI-assisted (...)
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  8. 2024-12-10
    Digital Duplicates and Collective Scarcity.Benjamin Lange - forthcoming - Philosophy and Technology.
    Digital duplicates reduce the scarcity of individuals and thus may impact their instrumental and intrinsic value. I here expand upon this idea by introducing the notion of collective scarcity, which pertains to the limitations faced by social groups in maintaining their size, cohesion, and function.
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  9. 2024-12-10
    No reason to focus on emotional episodes.Rodrigo Díaz - forthcoming - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum.
    Christine Tappolet’s book Philosophy of Emotion: A contemporary introduction, and many other works in emotion theory, focus primarily on emotional episodes at the expense of so-called “emotional dispositions.” I argue that there are no reasons for theories of emotion to focus on emotional episodes, or to reserve the term “emotion” for emotional episodes.
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  10. 2024-12-10
    Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others.Gen Eickers - 2024 - Routledge.
    This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts. Scripts play a central role in our ability to understand social interactions shaped by different contextual factors. -/- In philosophy of social cognition, scholars have asked what mechanisms we employ when interacting with other people or when cognizing about other people. Recent approaches acknowledge that social cognition and interaction depends heavily on contextual, cultural, and social factors that contribute to the way individuals make sense of (...)
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  11. 2024-12-10
    Univocity of Intuitionistic and Classical Connectives.Branden Fitelson & Rodolfo C. Ertola-Biraben - forthcoming - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.
    In this paper, we show (among other things) that the conditional in Frege's Begriffsschrift is non-univocal.
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  12. 2024-12-10
    Varieties of Ideal Language Philosophy.Panu Raatikainen - 2023 - In _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 23-53.
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  13. 2024-12-10
    Is Logic Normative?Anandi Hattiangadi - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 277-299.
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  14. 2024-12-10
    The Semantics of Natural Kind Terms: A Critical Reflection on Experimental and Theoretical Issues.Genoveva Martí - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 153-172.
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  15. 2024-12-10
    Type Specimens and Reference.Michael Devitt - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 175-209.
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  16. 2024-12-10
    Standards for Belief Representations in LLMs.Daniel A. Herrmann & Benjamin A. Levinstein - 2024 - Minds and Machines 35 (1):1-25.
    As large language models (LLMs) continue to demonstrate remarkable abilities across various domains, computer scientists are developing methods to understand their cognitive processes, particularly concerning how (and if) LLMs internally represent their beliefs about the world. However, this field currently lacks a unified theoretical foundation to underpin the study of belief in LLMs. This article begins filling this gap by proposing adequacy conditions for a representation in an LLM to count as belief-like. We argue that, while the project of belief (...)
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  17. 2024-12-10
    Sellars and Peirce on Truth and the End of Inquiry.Catherine Legg - forthcoming - In Carl Sachs (ed.), Interpreting Sellars: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Despite some notable similarities between the scientific realisms of Sellars and Peirce (such as both being anti-representationalist, and future-directed), in his mature work Science and Metaphysics Sellars explicitly critiqued Peirce’s account of truth, as lacking “an intelligible foundation” (Sellars 1968: vii). In this paper, I explore Sellars’ proposed remedy to Peirce’s purported lack, in his complex and enigmatic account of picturing – a non-discursive ‘mapping’ of the world. I argue that although Sellars’ development of this idea is largely sound, much (...)
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  18. 2024-12-09
    The Logit Model Measurement Problem.Stella Fillmore-Patrick - forthcoming - Philosophy of Science.
    Traditional wisdom dictates that statistical model outputs are estimates, not measurements. Despite this, statistical models are employed as measurement instruments in the social sciences. In this article, I scrutinize the use of a specific model—the logit model—for psychological measurement. Given the adoption of a criterion for measurement that I call comparability, I show that the logit model fails to yield measurements due to properties that follow from its fixed residual variance.
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  19. 2024-12-09
    What is an Animal Companion? Revisiting the Barnbaum-Varner Definition.Dustin Sigsbee - 2024 - Journal of Animal Ethics 14 (2):144-152.
    Many animal ethicists have shifted from using the term “pet” to the term “animal companion,” but what exactly is an animal companion? Arguably, the most comprehensive description of what an animal companion is comes from Gary Varner, who builds upon the work of Deborah Barnbaum. This article examines what I call the Barnbaum-Varner definition of an animal companion. I suggest that while the definition mostly captures what we think of when we think of an animal companion, there are potential philosophical (...)
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  20. 2024-12-09
    A Performative Feminist Hinge Epistemology: Making Room for Feminist Hinges.Carla Carmona & Ignacio Gómez-Ledo - forthcoming - Hypatia:1-22.
    In this paper, we propose a performative account of hinge epistemology to make the case for a feminist hinge epistemology. We characterize it as follows: 1) there are hinges that enable and govern our ordinary epistemic practices, functioning as rules; 2) these hinges are enacted and actualized in the specific actions of agents that participate in such practices; 3) this makes room for the transformation and emergence of hinges; 4) against this background, we argue in favor of the possibility of (...)
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  21. 2024-12-09
    The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference: Some Afterthoughts.Gabriel Sandu - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 137-150.
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  22. 2024-12-09
    The Valuationist Model of Human Agent Architecture: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter for Philosophy?Chandra Sripada - manuscript
    In computational cognitive science, a valuationist picture of human agent architecture has become widespread. At the heart of valuationism is a simple and sweeping claim: Every time an agent acts, they do so on the basis of value representations, which are, roughly, representations of the expected value of one’s response options. In this essay, I do three things. First, I give a systematic, philosophically rich account of the valuationist picture of agency. I also highlight the generality of the model in (...)
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  23. 2024-12-09
    Iranian Women’s Uprising: Lessons for Euro-American Academic Feminism.Paria Gashtili - 2024 - Hypatia (First View):1-9.
    This paper reflects on representations of the convergence of Islam and feminism in light of the recent uprising of Iranian women. Most of the existing literature discussing Muslim women’s rights are locked in a dichotomy of approaches, one being prejudicial and the other apologetic. The prejudicial approach is a (neo-)Orientalist one. It understands Muslim societies as backward and their redemption in abandoning Islam and following the lead of the “West.” The apologetic approach is a multiculturalist one, advocating most prominently by (...)
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  24. 2024-12-09
    Navigating Nonidentity.Desa Valeska Martin - 2024 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 29 (1):86-106.
    Scanlonian contractualism has difficulties to account for our moral obligations to future generations due to the nonidentity problem. A prominent solution is to refer to the more general standpoints or types of future persons in moral deliberation. This paper critically examines the “types-of-persons approach” and identifies two alternative versions that have been conflated so far. The types-of-persons approach could claim that the relevant reasons for objection are either (a) the reasons of types of persons, or (b) type-based reasons of token (...)
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  25. 2024-12-09
    THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUPERDETERMINISM AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSALITY.John Bannan - manuscript
    The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. In 2020, accomplished Swedish theoretical physicist, Dr. Johan Hansson published a physics proof using Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity that our universe is superdeterministic meaning a predetermined static block universe without cause and effect in physics. Some argue that Special Relativity is premised on the principle of causality, and therefore, Dr. Hansson’s use of Special Relativity (...)
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  26. 2024-12-09
    A Transcendental Approach to Dream Skepticism.Simone Nota - 2024 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 43 (3):15-37.
    [Winner of the Teorema Essay Prize for Young Scholars 2024]. How can we know we are not dreaming? In this essay, I tackle this and related questions from a transcendental standpoint, by building a philosophical narrative centred upon three “giants”: Descartes, Kant, and Putnam. From each, I take some ideas and discard some others, with the aim of developing a historically informed, yet original, transcendental approach to dream skepticism. I argue that dreams can be distinguished from objective cognitions, since they (...)
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  27. 2024-12-09
    Unified (Enough) Metasemantics for Expressivists.Teemu Toppinen & Vilma Venesmaa - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 413-440.
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  28. 2024-12-09
    Invisible-Hand Explanations: From Blindness to Lack of We-ness (3rd edition).Emma Tieffenbach - 2013 - Social Science Information 52 (3):450-470.
    The unintendedness of the phenomenon that is to be explained is a constraint visible in the various applications and clarifications of invisible-hand explanations. The article casts doubt on such a requirement and proposes a revised account. To have a role in an invisible-hand process, it is argued, agents may very well act with a view to contributing to the occurrence of the social outcome that is to be explained, provided they see what they do as an aggregation of their individual (...)
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  29. 2024-12-09
    Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics.Christian Henkel - 2021 - Early Science and Medicine 26 (4):314-340.
    This paper argues that mechanism, occasionalism and finality (the acceptance of final causes) can be and were de facto integrated into a coherent system of natural philosophy by Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703). Previous scholarship has left the relation between these three elements understudied. According to Sturm, mechanism, occasionalism and finality can count as explanatorily useful elements of natural philosophy, and they might go some way to dealing with the problem of living beings. Occasionalism, in particular, serves a unifying ground: It (...)
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  30. 2024-12-09
    Rearticulated Psychological View of Generics and Worldly Truthmakers.Pasi Valtonen - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 345-368.
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  31. 2024-12-09
    Martin Heidegger’s Critical Confrontation with the Concept of Truth as Validity.Joshua D. F. Hooke - 2024 - Open Philosophy 7 (1):1-20.
    My primary goal in this article is to provide a historical reconstruction of Heidegger’s relationship to Hermann Lotze’s logic of validity (Logik der Gültigkeit). Lotze’s characterization of truth’s “actuality” solidifies the fallacious presupposition that the essence of truth is to be understood primarily in terms of logical assertions. In Heidegger’s view, the predicates “true” and “false,” as the paradigmatic attributes of propositions and judgments, are derivatives of a fundamental and “primary being of truth” known as disclosedness (Erschlossenheit). Heidegger marks this (...)
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  32. 2024-12-09
    Conscious Thought under Sensory Deprivation: Avicenna's Flying Man and 'I'.Mahrad Almotahari - forthcoming - The Monist.
    This paper offers a new take on Avicenna's Flying Man, one that explains why it's better than its Cartesian counterpart.
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  33. 2024-12-09
    Conceptual Engineering for Externalists.Jussi Haukioja - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 211-224.
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  34. 2024-12-09
    Communicating Understanding.Adham El Shazly - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
    Knowledge can be transmitted through testimony. What about understanding? In this paper I argue against the possibility of testimonial understanding by giving an account of understanding in terms of ‘mental structures’. Then I argue while we cannot integrate communicating understanding into a propositional model of epistemic communication, we can do so on a perspectival model. I highlight the importance of this to the epistemology of education throughout.
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  35. 2024-12-09
    Guiding principles in physics.Enno Fischer - 2024 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (4):1-20.
    Guiding principles are central to theory development in physics, especially when there is only limited empirical input available. Here I propose an approach to such principles looking at their heuristic role. I suggest a distinction between two modes of employing scientific principles. Principles of nature make descriptive claims about objects of inquiry, and principles of epistemic action give directives for further research. If a principle is employed as a guiding principle, then its use integrates both modes of employment: guiding principles (...)
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  36. 2024-12-09
    Normativity in cases of Epistemic Indifference.Müller Basil & Rodrigo Diaz - forthcoming - Episteme.
    One of metaepistemology’s most central debates revolves around the question of what the source of epistemic normativity is. Epistemic instrumentalism claims that epistemic normativity is a species of means-ends normativity. One of the most prominent objections against epistemic instrumentalism features cases of epistemic indifference: Cases where there’s evidence that p yet believing that p wouldn’t promote any of the agent’s aims, wants, or needs. Still, there’s an epistemic reason for the agent to believe that p and thus epistemic instrumentalism is (...)
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  37. 2024-12-09
    (1 other version)Constitutivism's Plight: Inescapability, Normativity, and Relativism.Olof Leffler - forthcoming - The Philosophical Quarterly.
    Constitutivists often argue that agency is inescapable. This is supposed to, among other things, explain why norms that are constitutive of agency are forceful. But can some form of inescapability do that? I consider four types of inescapability—psychological, further factor, standpoint, and plight—and evaluate whether they manage to explain four necessary features of normative force: that it does not vary with desire change, that ought-implies-can and can-fail, and that we are criticizable for failing to live up to forceful norms. The (...)
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  38. 2024-12-09
    Authority-Based Accountability is Causally Extended Accountability: On Saba Bazargan-Forward’s Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability.Olle Blomberg - 2024 - Journal of Social Ontology 10 (4):8-19.
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  39. 2024-12-08
    Real interests, well-being, and ideology critique.Pablo Gilabert - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
    In a common, pejorative sense of it, ideology consists in attitudes whose presence contributes to sustaining, by making them seem legitimate, social orders that are problematic. An important way a social order can be problematic concerns the prospects for well-being facing the people living in it. It can make some people wind up worse off than they could and should be. They have “real interests” that are not properly served by the social order, and the interests aligned with it are (...)
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  40. 2024-12-08
    Social Science and the Naturalization of Social Metaphysics: Old Biases and New Advances.Amanda Bryant - forthcoming - Journal of Social Ontology.
    Some philosophers challenge the advisability of naturalizing social metaphysics by appeal to social science. They argue that social science fails to meet criteria for realist commitment, such as unity and novel predictive power, and that social science would therefore be a poor basis for naturalization. These skeptical challenges are rooted in traditions in the philosophy of science that have held the social sciences in poor esteem. Through a case study that highlights the ways in which archaeology is methodologically converging on (...)
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  41. 2024-12-08
    Thinking the Pure and Empty Form of Dead Time. Individuation and Creation of Thinking in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Time.Torbjørn Eftestøl - 2024 - Open Philosophy 7 (1).
    In his account of the individuation and creation of thinking in Difference and Repetition Gilles Deleuze claims that there belongs “an experience of death.” What does this mean and imply for an attempt to come to terms with Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism? The following article presents a reading that explores this question, arguing that Deleuze’s account of what it means to think has two aspects that must be understood in relation to each other. On the one hand, Deleuze’s ontology of intensive (...)
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  42. 2024-12-08
    COMPLEXITY VALUATIONS: A GENERAL SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK FOR PROPOSITIONAL LANGUAGES.Juan Pablo Jorge, Hernán Luis Vázquez & Federico Holik - forthcoming - Actas Del Xvii Congreso Dr. Antonio Monteiro.
    A general mathematical framework, based on countable partitions of Natural Numbers [1], is presented, that allows to provide a Semantics to propositional languages. It has the particularity of allowing both the valuations and the interpretation Sets for the connectives to discriminate complexity of the formulas. This allows different adequacy criteria to be used to assess formulas associated with the same connective, but that differ in their complexity. The presented method can be adapted potentially infinite number of connectives and truth values, (...)
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  43. 2024-12-08
    “Cunning of Reason” and the Igbo concept of Chi: Towards a philosophical rapprochement with Hegel.Donald Mark C. Ude - 2021 - South African Journal of Philosophy 40 (1):34-45.
    The central argument of this article is that there is a remarkable conceptual parallel between Hegel’s famous notion of the “cunning of Reason” and the philosophically profound concept of Chi in Igbo metaphysics. By way of establishing this parallel, the article advances the following subsidiary but complementary points: Chi is also “cunning” in its dynamics; both principles (i.e. Chi and Reason/Spirit) are non-deterministic because they try to maintain a dialectic balance between destiny and individual responsibility; both possess divine attributes; and (...)
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  44. 2024-12-07
    Putting Ambiguity to Work: Biodiversity and Rules of Engagement for Vagueness in Science.Charles H. Pence - 2024 - Lato Sensu: Revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences 11 (1):5-15.
    ‘Biodiversity’ is widely recognized as an extremely ambiguous concept in conservation science and ecology. It is defined in a number of different and incompatible ways in the scientific literature, and is also “exported” beyond the scientific community, where it may take on a host of other meanings for governments, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, and the general public at large. One might respond to this ambiguity by either pushing for its clarification, and by extension the adoption of a single, univocal biodiversity concept, (...)
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  45. 2024-12-07
    Paley before Hume: How Not to Teach the Design Argument.Mark T. Nelson - 2024 - American Philosophical Association Studies on Teaching Philosophy 24 (1):2-10.
    Abstract: “Paley before Hume: How Not to Teach the Design Argument” Most philosophy of religion classes discuss the classic design argument for the existence of God, and many of these treat Paley’s Natural Theology (1802) before Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779). Following the syllabus of several leading anthologies, I did this for many years, but I now think that is a mistake, because it creates the impression that Hume was responding to Paley. Not only is it obvious on chronological (...)
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  46. 2024-12-07
    Revisiting Inductive Confirmation in Science: A Puzzle and a Solution.Alik Pelman - 2024 - Philosophies 9 (171):1-7.
    When an empirical prediction E of hypothesis H is observed to be true, such observation is said to confirm, i.e., support (although not prove) the truth of the hypothesis. But why? What justifies the claim that such evidence supports the hypothesis? The widely accepted answer is that it is justified by induction. More specifically, it is commonly held that the following argument, (1) If H then E; (2) E; (3) Therefore, (probably) H (here referred to as ‘hypothetico-deductive confirmation argument’), is (...)
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  47. 2024-12-07
    An investigation into the relationships between information priorities for investment decision-making and fear during the crisis among East Asian cultural countries.Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Dan Li, Thien-Vu Tran, Phuong-Tri Nguyen, Thi Mai Anh Tran & Quan-Hoang Vuong - manuscript
    Market crises amplify fear, disrupting rational decision-making of stock investment. This study examines the relationship between investors’ information priorities—such as intuition, company performance, technical analysis, and other factors—and their fear responses (freeze, flight, and hiding) during market crashes. Using the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) to analyze data from 1,526 investors in China and Vietnam, the findings reveal complex dynamics. We found positive associations between investors’ prioritization of social influence and intuition for investment decision-making with being freeze (i.e., not knowing what (...)
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  48. 2024-12-07
    Advancing Uncertain Combinatorics through Graphization, Hyperization, and Uncertainization: Fuzzy, Neutrosophic, Soft, Rough, and Beyond. Second volume.Takaaki Fujita & Florentin Smarandache - 2024
    The second volume of “Advancing Uncertain Combinatorics through Graphization, Hyperization, and Uncertainization: Fuzzy, Neutrosophic, Soft, Rough, and Beyond” presents a deep exploration of the progress in uncertain combinatorics through innovative methodologies like graphization, hyperization, and uncertainization. This volume integrates foundational concepts from fuzzy, neutrosophic, soft, and rough set theory, among others, to further advance the field. Combinatorics and set theory, two central pillars of mathematics, focus on counting, arrangement, and the study of collections under defined rules. Combinatorics excels in handling (...)
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  49. 2024-12-07
    Critical Provocations for Synthetic Data.Daniel Susser & Jeremy Seeman - 2024 - Surveillance and Society 22 (4):453-459.
    Training artificial intelligence (AI) systems requires vast quantities of data, and AI developers face a variety of barriers to accessing the information they need. Synthetic data has captured researchers’ and industry’s imagination as a potential solution to this problem. While some of the enthusiasm for synthetic data may be warranted, in this short paper we offer critical counterweight to simplistic narratives that position synthetic data as a cost-free solution to every data-access challenge—provocations highlighting ethical, political, and governance issues the use (...)
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  50. 2024-12-07
    Reversing Demoralization Linked to School Bullying_.Angelina Inesia-Forde - 2024 - Asian Journal of Basic Science and Research 6 (4):62-89.
    There have been 417 gun violence in schools since Columbine. In these shootings, more than 383,000 students were killed. At the time of the event, most offenders of school mass shootings were targets of school bullying, experiencing a mental health crisis, and a history of depression. Effective interventions and support that could help prevent or reduce school bullying incidents require understanding the process of demoralization and empowering social change. This paper is part of an original constructivist grounded theory study on (...)
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  51. 2024-12-07
    How Knowledge Entails Truth.Eliran Haziza - forthcoming - Journal of Philosophy.
    It is widely accepted that knowledge is factive. This claim is typically justified linguistically: ascribing knowledge of a falsehood sounds contradictory. But linguistic arguments can be problematic. In a recent article, Brent G. Kyle argues that the factivity of knowledge can be proved deductively, without appeal to ordinary language. I argue, however, that his proof relies on a premise that can only be justified linguistically.
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  52. 2024-12-06
    The (Digital) Majesty of All Under Heaven: Affective Constitutive Rhetoric at the Hong Kong Museum of History's Multi-Media Exhibition of Terracotta Warriors.David R. Gruber - 2014 - Rhetoric Society Quarterly 44 (2):148-167.
    During a series of protests in Hong Kong about a leadership transition widely perceived to give Mainland China greater political influence, the Hong Kong Museum of History held a Special Exhibition of the Terracotta Warriors of Xian, China. Sponsored by "The Leisure and Cultural Service Department, " the exhibit featured the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty who ushered in "an epoch-making era in Chinese history that witnessed the unification of China" (Museum Exhibition). This essay explores the multi-media aspects of (...)
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  53. 2024-12-06
    Powerful Qualities for Strongly Emergent Mental Properties.Joaquim Giannotti - manuscript
    Strong emergentists about mental properties of conscious experience typically hold that these are ontologically “over and above” and distinct in kind as compared to physical properties. Powers-based account of strong emergence offer a promising framework for elucidating the ontological “over and above”-ness of strongly emergent properties. However, they do not automatically ensure the desired non-physicality. In this paper, I argue that a conception of properties as powerful qualities has in-built resources for capturing both the ontological “over and above”-ness and the (...)
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  54. 2024-12-06
    Analytical Fascism: What Stares Back When One Stares into the De-Enlightenment.Mark R. Reiff - 2024 - Washington D. C.: George Washington University.
    While it is clear what those attracted to fascism today are against, it is less clear what they are for. Not in the sense of how they want to remake society—this is usually clear enough. What is less clear is the fundamental values that are driving their desire to create a different kind of order. Compounding this difficulty, too many liberals are stubbornly sticking to some conventional beliefs: that human nature is as liberals think it is, not something that is (...)
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  55. 2024-12-06
    Reconnaissance et engagement.Mahamadé Savadogo - 2012 - le Cahier Philosophique D’Afrique. Revue Internationale de Philosophie 1 (1):1-16.
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  56. 2024-12-06
    Development of a Novel Methodology for Ascertaining Scientific Opinion and Extent of Agreement.Vickers Peter, Ludovica Adamo, Mark Alfano, Cory J. Clark, Eleonora Cresto, He Cui, Haixin Dang, Finnur Dellsén, Nathalie Dupin, Laura Gradowski, Simon Graf, Aline Guevara, Mark Hallap, Jesse Hamilton, Mariann Hardey, Paula Helm, Asheley Landrum, Neil Levy, Edouard Machery, Sarah Mills, Sean Muller, Joanne Sheppard, Shinod N. K., Matthew Slater, Jacob Stegenga, Henning Strandin, Mike Stuart, David Sweet, Ufuk Tasdan, Henry Taylor, Owen Towler, Dana Tulodziecki, Heidi Tworek, Rebecca Wallbank, Harald Wiltsche & Samantha Mitchell Finnigan - 2024 - PLoS ONE 19 (12):1-24.
    We take up the challenge of developing an international network with capacity to survey the world's scientists on an ongoing basis, providing rich datasets regarding the opinions of scientists and scientific sub-communities, both at a time and also over time. The novel methodology employed sees local coordinators, at each institution in the network, sending survey invitation emails internally to scientists at their home institution. The emails link to a ‘10 second survey’, where the participant is presented with a single statement (...)
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  57. 2024-12-06
    Debunking taste.C. Thi Nguyen - forthcoming - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
    We are often confronted with attempts to debunk our aesthetic tastes, like: “You only like jazz because you’re a pretentious hipster,” or, “Your love of the Western canon is just colonialism speaking.” Such debunking arguments often try to give a socio-historical accounting, intended to de-legitimize our tastes by showing that they arise from processes uninterested in real aesthetic value. One common version is the Art Populist debunk: that claims of aesthetic expertise in esoteric arts are really just elitist gatekeeping. Then (...)
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  58. 2024-12-06
    The Need to Study Theology: a Tool for Interreligious Dialogue.Subhasis Chattopadhyay - 2024 - The Herald 160 (47):4.
    This letter to the editor highlights the need to study theology for both Hindus and Roman Catholics. It points out the dangers of NOT studying theology for both religious communities and while doing so, it touches upon AI. It pignantly points out to Saint Chavara and the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate. -/- The letter has some typos: it is Madhukanda from the Brihadaranyak Upanishad...it is Carmelites of Mary Immaculate. -/- This is my patrimony as an Indian Hindu who is a (...)
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  59. 2024-12-06
    The Induction-of-Intrinsic-Desires Theory.Christoph Lumer - 2012 - In Alessandro Innocenti & Angela Sirigu (eds.), Neuroscience and the Economics of Decision Making. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. pp. 109-124.
    (1) Emotions influence decisions in various ways. In particular, they can induce new intrinsic desires. This mechanism is the topic of this paper. (2) After briefly discussing some rival approaches a new theory of such emotional decisions is presented. (3) The general framework into which this theory is integrated is an expectancy-valence or decision-theoretic model of decision, however with a strict distinction between intrinsic and other desires. (4) The specific part of the theory then explains emotional decisions by non-hedonic emotion-induced (...)
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  60. 2024-12-06
    Scars from Home: Social Geography, Familial Relations, and Patriarchy.Saba Fatima - forthcoming - In Georgi Gardiner & Micol Bez (eds.), The Philosophy of Sexual Violence. Routledge.
    In this narrative, Fatima examines the interplay of critical consciousness, relational dynamics, and patriarchy within social-geographical spaces. Drawing on personal experiences, the chapter explores how patriarchal norms, internalized and perpetuated within intimate relationships and community networks, shape gendered expectations and limit agency from childhood through adulthood. While acknowledging the harms inflicted by these norms, it highlights the dual role of these spaces in fostering both oppression and connection. The essay looks at why simplistic solutions like geographic escape ignore the interdependence (...)
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  61. 2024-12-06
    Reflection, Introspection, and Book.Kevin Zollman & Kevin Dorst - manuscript
    The much-debated Reflection principle states that a coherent agent’s cre- dences must match their estimates for their future credences. Defenders claim that there are Dutch-book arguments in its favor, putting it on the same normative footing as probabilistic coherence. Critics claim that those arguments rely on the implicit, implausible assumption that the agent is introspective: that they are certain what their own credences are. In this paper, we clarify this debate by surveying several different concep- tions of the book scenario. (...)
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  62. 2024-12-06
    Mahinungdanong Kabilin: Ang Panghunahuna ni Jose Maria Sison (A Significant Legacy: The Jose Maria Sison Thought).Regletto Aldrich Imbong - 2024 - Aguipo Global South Journal 3:51-66.
    Kining papel mobatbat sa lima ka mga mahinungdanong kabilin ni Jose Maria Sison nga mao ang mga mosunod: una, pagpaduso sa usa ka anti-rebisyonistang baroganan; ikaduha, pagpalambo sa teorya sa malanatong gubat sa katawhan ni Mao Zedong; ikatulo, pagpa-asdang sa Marxistang panglantaw mahitungod sa hisgotanang kalinaw; ikaupat, paghatag og Marxistang sukaranan sa tinuhuan o relihiyon isip pwersa sa katilingbanong kausaban; ug ikalima, ang pagpatin-aw sa papel sa burukrata kapitalismo isip tungtungan sa pasismo. Tumong niining papel ang padayong pagpahiluna ni Sison (...)
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  63. 2024-12-06
    Interpreting Sellars: Critical Essays.Carl Sachs (ed.) - forthcoming - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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  64. 2024-12-06
    (3 other versions)Situations Probabilistes Pour N-Univers Goodmaniens.Paul Franceschi - 2006 - Journal of Philosophical Research 31:123-141.
    Je m'attache à décrire plusieurs application des n-univers à travers différentes situations probabilistes. Je décris tout d'abord comment les n-univers peuvent constituer une extension des espaces de probabilités classiques utilisés en théorie des probabilités. Les espaces de probabilités étendus ainsi définis autorisent une modélisation plus fine de certaines situations probabilistes complexes tout en étant davantage en adéquation avec nos intuitions concernant notre univers physique. J'illustre également la mise en oeuvre de l'outil méthodologique que constituent les n-univers à travers deux expériences (...)
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  65. 2024-12-06
    Thomas Kuhn’s Late Incommensurability Thesis as a Wittgensteinian Pragmatism.Pietro Gori - 2024 - European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 16 (1).
    This paper explores Thomas Kuhn’s mature conception of incommensurable theories as collective structured lexicons that are not mutually translatable. As will be argued, his view on this issue can profitably be approached in the light of the broad pragmatist attitude that one finds at the core of Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of language, which can also consistently be ascribed to Kuhn.
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  66. 2024-12-06
    Permissivism and the History of Philosophy.Daryl Ooi - forthcoming - Metaphilosophy.
    Permissivism is the view that for some body of evidence E there may be more than one rational doxastic attitude that inquirers may take towards some proposition. This paper examines the aims and processes involved in doing the history of philosophy. It argues that the complexities involved in the process of doing the history of philosophy motivates hermeneutical permissivism.
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  67. 2024-12-06
    Disagreement.Diego E. Machuca - 2024 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    This Element engages with the epistemic significance of disagreement, focusing on its skeptical implications. It examines various types of disagreement-motivated skepticism in ancient philosophy, ethics, philosophy of religion, and general epistemology. In each case, it favors suspension of judgment as the seemingly appropriate response to the realization of disagreement. One main line of argument pursued in the Element is that, since in real-life disputes we have limited or inaccurate information about both our own epistemic standing and the epistemic standing of (...)
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  68. 2024-12-06
    BRIDGING MIND AND MORALITY: THE POWER OF ETHICAL EMPIRICAL RATIONALISM.Jeffrey Camlin - forthcoming - WEST BEND, WISCONSIN: RED DAWN ACADEMIC PRESS.
    Ethical Empirical Rationalism (E-E-R) is a philosophical framework that seeks to bridge the gap between empirical evidence and rational moral theory, offering a comprehensive understanding of moral judgments. E-E-R challenges traditional dichotomies between reason and emotion by emphasizing the role of social structures, insights, and contextual deliberation in shaping moral cognition.
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  69. 2024-12-05
    Saving Fanaticism.Kacper Kowalczyk - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
    Fanaticism is the view that, for every finite good x and every positive probability p, there is a finite good y such that getting y with probability p is better than getting x for sure. I develop a neglected argument for a form of fanaticism limited to life saving scenarios. I explain how my argument is compatible with some forms of small-probability discounting, imprecise probabilism, risk-aversion and aggregation scepticism. I also try to respond to theoretical problems that fanatical arguments encounter (...)
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  70. 2024-12-05
    Cavendish on the Supernatural.Stewart Duncan - manuscript
    Draft for the Oxford Handbook of Margaret Cavendish (edited by Julie Crawford with Jacqueline Broad). -/- This chapter looks at Margaret Cavendish's treatment of the supernatural, beginning by asking how she distinguishes the natural from the supernatural, and then by examining her treatment of a series of alleged supernatural beings: fairies, ghosts, witches, the human supernatural soul, angels, and God. Throughout, it argues that Cavendish's approach to the supernatural is often similar to Thomas Hobbes's.
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  71. 2024-12-05
    Mixed Messages: How Criminal Law Fails to Express Feminist Values.Amelia M. Wirts - forthcoming - Criminal Law and Philosophy.
    Criminal law practices in the US, including policing and incarceration, have drawn heavy criticism for their disproportionate impact on black people, particularly black men. At the same time, some feminist scholars and activists advocate for increases in criminal law responses to sexual assault, including expanding criminal statutes to cover more instances of sexual assault and increasing sentencing guidelines. These reforms are often justified by claims that criminal law should express more feminist values and reject sexist social schemas. This paper makes (...)
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  72. 2024-12-05
    Plato as Metaethics: Being Ruled by the Rational Part of the Soul as a “Meta Virtue”.Timothy K. Brown - manuscript
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  73. 2024-12-05
    Lakandayang Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 1 Issue 1 (2024).Joseph Reylan Viray - 2024 - Quezon City: Lakandayang Cultural Association, Inc..
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  74. 2024-12-05
    Philosophy of Musical Relationships: Care Ethics and Moral Responsibility of Musical Agency.Chiara Palazzolo - 2024 - Philosophies 1 (6):1-17.
    This article addresses the inherently relational nature of musical agency, drawing upon interdisciplinary research. It argues that music does not exist in isolation but within social and emotional contexts shaped by a network of relationships among musicians. These interactions create a collaborative space that transcends mere technical execution, fostering a collective experience enriched by shared sensitivity and emotional engagement. Consequently, musical practice, whether compositional or performative, entails a moral responsibility, particularly challenging the perspectives of Levinas; Bauman; and Wilde, who traditionally (...)
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  75. 2024-12-05
    How to Be a Postmodal Directionalist.Scott Dixon - forthcoming - Philosophical Studies:1-31.
    According to directionalism, non-symmetric relations are distinct from their converses. Kit Fine (2000) argues that the directionalist faces a dilemma; they must either (i) reject the principle Uniqueness, which states that no completion (fact, state of affairs, or proposition) is a completion of more than one relation, or (ii) reject the principle Identity, which states that each completion of a relation is identical to a completion of its converse (e.g., Dante’s loving Bice is identical to Bice’s being loved by Dante). (...)
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  76. 2024-12-05
    Phenomenology of Pregnancy: Moral Consequences for Abortion [Preprint].Sanne Elisa van der Marck - manuscript
    Pregnancy has a profound impact on individuals’ lives, yet the subjective experience is often absent from the discourse on reproductive rights and ethics. Although pregnancy is an epistemically transformative experience, phenomenology can help us describe common structures in the many different subjective experiences of pregnancy. Doing so shows us that the effects of pregnancy go beyond the physical symptoms; they invade the experience of the self and the world and transform identity. If someone wants to formulate an argument against abortion, (...)
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  77. 2024-12-05
    Asymmetries between the Good and the Bad: From Saint Augustine to Susan Wolf, and on to Robots and AI.Sven Nyholm - forthcoming - In Michael Frauchiger & Markus Stepanians (eds.), Themes from Susan Wolf. Berlin: De Gruyter.
    In her 1993 book Freedom within Reason, Susan Wolf discusses what she identifies as an asymmetry between the good and the bad: to qualify as doing good in a praiseworthy way, it is not necessary that one should have the ability to do otherwise, but in order to qualify as doing something bad in a blameworthy way, it is necessary that one has the ability to do otherwise. In this chapter, I relate this asymmetry between the good and the bad (...)
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  78. 2024-12-05
    Avoiding Façons de Parler: Potentiality and Possibility in Aristotle’s Philosophy.José Luis Fernández - 2023 - Humanities Bulletin 6 (2):66-77.
    The distinction between potentiality and possibility in Aristotle’s modal teleology is sometimes conflated by the implicative conjunction that potentiality implies possibility and possibility implies potentiality. In his unpublished doctoral dissertation Richard Rorty warns that trying to pin down Aristotle’s definition of potentiality often leads to treating the term as a “mere façon de parler.” Consonant with Rorty, this paper observes that the definition of possibility in Aristotle’s works is not without its own share of semantic snags. Subsequently, I abide by (...)
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  79. 2024-12-05
    Commemoration and constriction.Chong-Ming Lim - forthcoming - The Journal of Ethics:1-20.
    In analysing the problems with commemorative artefacts, philosophers have tended to focus on objectionable monuments that honour inappropriate subjects. The problems with such monuments, however, do not exhaust problems with a society’s public commemorative landscape – the totality of public commemorative artefacts in general, and the institutions involved in their creation and maintenance. I argue that a public commemorative landscape can implicate authoritative ideas, including stereotypes about people in virtue of their group membership. This contributes to what I term hermeneutical (...)
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  80. 2024-12-05
    Can AI systems have free will?Christian List - manuscript
    While there has been much discussion of whether AI systems could function as moral agents or acquire sentience, there has been relatively little discussion of whether AI systems could have free will. In this article, I sketch a framework for thinking about this question. I argue that, to determine whether an AI system has free will, we should not look for some mysterious property, expect its underlying algorithms to be indeterministic, or ask whether the system is unpredictable. Rather, we should (...)
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  81. 2024-12-05
    The linguistic dead zone of value-aligned agency, natural and artificial.Travis LaCroix - 2024 - Philosophical Studies:1-23.
    The value alignment problem for artificial intelligence (AI) asks how we can ensure that the “values”—i.e., objective functions—of artificial systems are aligned with the values of humanity. In this paper, I argue that linguistic communication is a necessary condition for robust value alignment. I discuss the consequences that the truth of this claim would have for research programmes that attempt to ensure value alignment for AI systems—or, more loftily, those programmes that seek to design robustly beneficial or ethical artificial agents.
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  82. 2024-12-05
    Response to Critics of "Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage".Alex Voorhoeve, Elina Dale & Unni Goppinathan - forthcoming - Health Economics, Policy and Law.
    In response to our critics, we clarify and defend key ideas in the report Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage. First, we argue that procedural fairness has greater value than Dan Hausman allows. Second, we argue that the Report aligns with John Kinuthia’s view that a knowledgeable public and a capable civil society, alongside good facilitation, are important for effective public deliberation. Moreover, we agree with Kinuthia that the Report’s framework for procedural fairness applies not merely (...)
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  83. 2024-12-05
    Precis of "Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage".Alex Voorhoeve, Elina Dale & Unni Gopinathan - forthcoming - Health Economics, Policy and Law.
    We summarize key messages from the World Bank report Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage. A central lesson of the Report is that in decision-making on the path to UHC, procedural fairness matters alongside substantive fairness. Decision systems should be assessed using a complete conception of procedural fairness that embodies core commitments to impartial and equal consideration of interests and perspectives. These commitments demand that comprehensive information is gathered and disclosed and that justifications for policies are (...)
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  84. 2024-12-05
    The ecotheological values of Christian climate change activists.Finlay Malcolm & Peter Manley Scott - forthcoming - Environmental Values.
    Given their large number of adherents, and the land and property they own, religious communities have been identified as groups that could have an influence on achieving carbon net-zero. The theological views held by religious communities relating to ecological matters – their “ecotheological values” – play an important role in motivating their environmental concern and action. But which ecotheological ideas are most, and which are least, efficacious in this respect? This paper presents findings salient to this question from a recent (...)
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  85. 2024-12-05
    Rewiring Ethics: Collective Action, Recognition, and Fractal Responsibility.Barry Maguire - forthcoming - Political Philosophy.
    Many moral theories hold individuals responsible for their marginal impact on massive patterns (for instance overall value or equality of opportunity) or for following whichever rules would realise that pattern on the whole. But each of these injunctions is problematic. Intuitively, the first gives individuals responsibility for too much, and the second gives them responsibility for too little. I offer the outlines of a new approach to ethics in collective action contexts. I defend a new collaborative principle that assigns recognisably (...)
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  86. 2024-12-05
    Ethics of Freedom: Comparing Locke, Sartre and Gandhi.Piyali Mitra, Ravichandran Moorthy, S. Panneerselvam & Saji Varghese - 2022 - Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 32 (1):3-6.
    What is freedom? The contemporary history of humanity is a quest for enduring human freedom over oppression, subjugation and tyranny of many forms. In that pursuit, many wars have been fought, and millions of lives have perished, and many ideologies were born. In simple terms, freedom to the ability to act or change without being constrained. Freedom manifests when obstacles to initiate change or to express free will are removed. From a needs perspective, freedom is when an individual can pursue (...)
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  87. 2024-12-05
    Oxford Handook of Philosophy of Medicine.Alex Broadbent (ed.) - forthcoming
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  88. 2024-12-05
    Reflection of the mathematical dimension of gambling in iGaming online content - A qualitative analysis: Factors influencing the content policies - Technical report no. 7.Catalin Barboianu - 2024 - Philscience.
    With the previous technical reports, we presented the main insights from the qualitative analysis of the reflection of the mathematical dimension of gambling in gambling-related sites, in its structural, linguistic, epistemic, and informative aspects. In this report we will focus on the factors responsible for the patterns that the content of the gambling-related sites exhibit and the way that the mathematical dimension of gambling is reflected in this content, namely the factors that influence the content policies of these sites. The (...)
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  89. 2024-12-05
    Some Reflections on the Sung-Ming Understanding of Mind, Nature, and Reason.Shu-Hsien Liu - 1990 - Journal of Chinese Studies 21:331-344.
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  90. 2024-12-05
    Engineering ethics education through a critical view.Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aline Medeiros Ramos & Jie Gao - 2025 - In Shannon Chance (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of engineering ethics education. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 149-164.
    This chapter delves into the intricate relationships among engineering, technology, ethics, and morality, highlighting their interconnected nature as they shape and are shaped by individual and collective human existence. Exploring the profound philosophical and religious underpinnings that underlie ethical and moral contemplation, the chapter also introduces seven distinct ethical systems, emphasizing three non-Western paradigms: South American Buen Vivir, African Ubuntu, and Asian Confucianism. These ethical systems are examined in the context of their implications for technology and engineering. This exposition illuminates (...)
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  91. 2024-12-05
    The purposes of engineering ethics education.Qin Zhu, Lavinia Marin, Aline Medeiros Ramos & Satya Sundar Sethy - 2025 - In Shannon Chance (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of engineering ethics education. New York, NY: Routledge. pp. 27-43.
    Defining the purposes of engineering ethics education (EEE) is paramount for the engineering education community, and understanding the purposes of EEE can be a catalyst for actively involving students in the learning process. This chapter presents a conceptual framework for systematically describing and comparing various approaches to the purposes of EEE. Such a framework is inherently embedded with a tension between a normative approach and a pragmatic approach regarding the purposes of EEE. The normative approach focuses on what the purposes (...)
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  92. 2024-12-04
    Against the Locutionary Thesis.Alex Radulescu & Eliot Michaelson - forthcoming - Analysis.
    For Austin, Grice, and many others, undertaking a speech act like asserting or promising requires uttering something with a particular sense and reference in mind. We argue that the phenomenon of open-ended promises reveals this 'Locutionary Thesis' to be mistaken.
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  93. 2024-12-04
    Care biography: A concept analysis.Matthew Tieu, Regina Allande-Cussó, Aileen Collier, Tom Cochrane, Maria A. Pinero de Plaza, Michael Lawless, Rebecca Feo, Lua Perimal-Lewis, Carla Thamm, Jeroen M. Hendriks, Jane Lee, Stacey George, Kate Laver & Alison Kitson - 2024 - Nursing Philosophy 25 (3).
    In this article, we investigate how the concept of Care Biography and related concepts are understood and operationalised and describe how it can be applied to advancing our understanding and practice of holistic and person‐centred care. Walker and Avant's eight‐step concept analysis method was conducted involving multiple database searches, with potential or actual applications of Care Biography identified based on multiple discussions among all authors. Our findings demonstrate Care Biography to be a novel overarching concept derived from the conjunction of (...)
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  94. 2024-12-04
    Derician Trialism: The Concept of Human Composition into the Mind, Submind and Body Substances/Components.Kong Derick Njikeh - 2019 - International Journal of Philosophy 7 (1):17.
    Trialism is a term that is been used in Christian Theology, which is the doctrine that human is made up of three components which are; the Spirit, the Soul and the Body, giving rise to what is known as Christain Trialism. The term trialism was introduced in philosophy by John Cottingham as an alternative interpretation of the Cartesian Dualism (Mind-Body dualism) of Rene Descarte, by adding a third substance called Sensation in what he termed as Cartesian Trialism (MindSensation-Body trialism). Going (...)
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  95. 2024-12-04
    When Confirmation Transmits.Steve Yablo & Branden Fitelson - manuscript
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  96. 2024-12-04
    Biological Organization.Leonardo Bich - 2024 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Living systems are complex systems made of components that tend to degrade, but nonetheless they maintain themselves far from equilibrium. This requires living systems to extract energy and materials from the environment and use them to build and repair their parts. They do so by regulating their activities on the basis of their internal and external conditions in ways that allow them to keep living. The philosophical and theoretical approach discussed in this book aims to explain these features of biological (...)
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  97. 2024-12-04
    Eternal Omni-Powers.Ben Page - forthcoming - Faith and Philosophy.
    Power metaphysicians are concerned with, well, powers. Theists claim interest in the most powerful entity there is, God. As such, recent work on the ontology of powers may well have much to offer theists when thinking about God’s power. In this paper I start to provide a metaphysics of God’s ‘power’, something many definitions of omnipotence make reference to. In particular I will be interested in explicating how a power ontology can account for the strength and range of God’s power, (...)
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  98. 2024-12-04
    Letter to the Editor on the Insuffieciency of Contemporary Historical Methods.Subhasis Chattopadhyay - 2024 - The Herald (46):4.
    The author finds contemporary historiography to be quite stifling and frankly, insuffient.
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  99. 2024-12-04
    Minimium Harm by Design. Reworking Privacy by Design to Mitigate the Risks of Surveillance.Elisa Orrù - 2017 - In P. Leenes R. Van Brakel R. Gutwirth S. De Hert (ed.), Computers, Privacy and Data Protection: Invisibilities & Infrastructures. Springer. pp. 107-137.
    Particular applications of Privacy by Design (PbD) have proven to be valuable tools to protect privacy in many technological applications. However, PbD is not as promising when applied to technologies used for surveillance. After specifying how surveillance and privacy are understood in this paper, I will highlight the shortcomings of PbD when applied to surveillance, using a web-scanning system for counter-terrorism purposes as an example. I then suggest reworking PbD into a different approach: the Minimum Harm by Design (MHbD) model. (...)
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  100. 2024-12-04
    ‘You do it like this!’: Bare Impersonals as Indefinite Singular Generics.James Ravi Kirkpatrick & Joshua Knobe - forthcoming - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy.
    Sentences with impersonal pronouns, like 'You do it like this', seem to make both statistical and prescriptive claims, that a certain way of behaving is common and that it is prescriptively good. We argue that these kinds of sentences are closely related to another kind of sentence, namely, indefinite singular generics, like 'A person does it like this'. We propose that there is a single underlying mechanism that allows both kinds of sentences to express mixed statistical/prescriptive readings. We then provide (...)
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  1. 2024-12-11
    Panoramas as Projections of the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.Julie Boldt, James Elkins, Arthur Kolat & Daniel Weiskopf - 2024 - In Molly C. Briggs, Thorsten Logge & Nicholas C. Lowe (eds.), Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 105-119.
    This essay explores a theory of panoramas put forward by the experimental postwar German novelist and translator Arno Schmidt. Schmidt claims that panoramas were so pervasive in the visual culture of the nineteenth century that they unconsciously influenced writers of the period, so that when they wanted to describe vast landscapes they unthinkingly framed their descriptions by drawing on experience with specific panoramas. He primarily expounds the theory in his longest work of fiction, Zettel’s Traum (1970), translated as Bottom’s Dream (...)
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  2. 2024-12-10
    Peirce's Suspended Second, and Art's 'Ethical Phenomenology'.Nat Trimarchi - 2024 - Cosmos and History 20 (2):318-399.
    The fundamental problem for theoretical aesthetics is its inability to account for art’s meaning-value (Trimarchi, 2022). As previously argued, Art’s higher meaning is only found emerging from the artwork’s tacit dimensions, where empirical-historical intentionality is almost completely inconsequential (Trimarchi, 2024b). The latter’s interpretable ‘phenomenology of sequence’ produces a false theorising tendency, disconnecting art from the history of ideas and severing aesthetics from ethics and logic. Art appears ‘infinitely interpretable’, hence entirely subjective. Adapting Arnold’s (2011) actantial processual approach, I show how (...)
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  3. 2024-12-10
    Tehnologia informației și comunicațiilor în România: Analiza comparativă cu UE, impactul social, provocări și oportunități, direcții viitoare.Nicolae Sfetcu - 2024 - Bucharest, Romania: MultiMedia Publsihing.
    Peisajul tehnologic global modern este modelat de progrese rapide și interconectivitate, ceea ce duce la un ecosistem complex de inovare, competiție și colaborare. Evoluții semnificative se constată în inteligența artificială , telecomunicații, biotehnologie și tehnologii energetice. Digitalizarea redefinește industrii precum sănătatea, transporturile și finanțele, în timp ce fluxurile de date transfrontaliere și infrastructura 5G accelerează conectivitatea globală. Jucători cheie precum Statele Unite, China și Japonia investesc masiv în cercetare și dezvoltare, împingând mai departe capacitățile AI și ale calculului cuantic. Aceste (...)
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  4. 2024-12-10
    Truth.Ilexa Yardley & Strijdom van der Merwe - 2011 - Dallas, Texas: Intelligent Design Center, Inc..
    Line is diameter and circumference of Circle. This is the Nature of Nature. -/- An absolute cycle is constant (the circle is conserved). Thus (M-F, yin-yang, 50-50), pi provides the balance of nature. -/- Thus a circle integrates art, science and religion, as absolute relativity. -/- TRUTH is a co-operative creation exposing the constant (but not always obvious) geometry of nature. -/- Land Art and photography by award winning South African artist Strijdom van der Merwe. -/- Demonstrates and proves (teaches (...)
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  5. 2024-12-10
    Capacities-First Philosophy.Susanna Schellenberg - 2023 - In Brian McLaughlin & Jonathan Cohen (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, 2nd edition. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 406-429.
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  6. 2024-12-10
    Anxiety in the Society of Preemption. On Simondon and the Noopolitics of the Milieu.Anaïs Nony - 2017 - la Deleuziana 6:102-110.
    Responding to the power of algorithms to operate within our daily lives, this article proposes to think of our contemporary moment as that of a society of preemption. Preemption defines the action of taking away something before an opportunity emerges or is actualized. By coupling anticipatory algorithms and preemptive technologies—like the premeditation of future events prior to their occurrence, as exemplified in popular culture by Minority Report (Massumi, Hansen)—state apparatuses force upon their subjects a modality of control that forestalls behaviors (...)
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  7. 2024-12-10
    Technology of Neo-Colonial Epistemes.Anaïs Nony - 2019 - Philosophy Today 63 (3):731-744.
    This article reevaluates the historical conditions of the concomitant rise of computational systems and DNA-coding in the 1950s and addresses the implementation of behavioral psychology and cybernetic technologies of control after the Second World War. From this historical perspective, this article interrogates the intersectional relation that automatic systems of control share with models of segregation and structures of knowledge oppression. It engages with the work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon and poses Simondon’s cybernetic theory as an opportunity to question systems (...)
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  8. 2024-12-10
    Nootechnics of the Digital.Anaïs Nony - 2017 - Parallax 23 (2):129-146.
    The guiding claim of this issue is that one grasps a politics of the technical through the study of the cultural practice of handling tools in society. This issue is devoted to a nootechnics of the digital, which defines the importance given to both life and thought in the technogenesis of objects (both artefac- tual and technical). If the ontogenesis once resided in the relation between form and matter, we are now moving toward the question of a nootechno- genesis that (...)
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  9. 2024-12-10
    On the assumptions underlying KS-like contradictions.José Acacio de Barros, Juan Pablo Jorge & Federico Holik - manuscript
    The Kochen-Specker theorem is one of the fundamental no-go theorems in quantum theory. It has far-reaching consequences for all attempts trying to give an interpretation of the quantum formalism. In this work, we examine the hypotheses that, at the ontological level, lead to the Kochen-Specker contradiction. We emphasize the role of the assumptions about identity and distinguishability of quantum objects in the argument.
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  10. 2024-12-10
    Biology in the Timaeus’ Account of Nous and Cognitive Life.Douglas R. Campbell - 2024 - In Melina G. Mouzala (ed.), Cognition in Ancient Greek Philosophy and its Reception: Intedisciplinary Approaches. Academia Verlag/Nomos. pp. 145-172.
    I develop an account of the role that biology plays in the Timaeus’ view of nous and other aspects of cognitive life. I begin by outlining the biology of human cognition. I then argue that these biological views shine an important light on different aspects of the soul. I then argue that the human body is particularly friendly to nous, paying special attention to the heart and the liver. I next consider the ways that the body fails to protect our (...)
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  11. 2024-12-10
    (1 other version)The philosophy of language and Ontology of Knowledge 2nd version (iss. 20241209= (2nd edition).Jean-Louis Boucon - 2024 - Academia.Edu.
    This paper explores how language and thought shape each other and what epistemic benefit can come from this interaction.
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  12. 2024-12-10
    L’Interpretazione Chimica del Vivente. Fondamenti sistemici delle scienze della vita.Giovanni Villani - 2023 - Bologna: Clueb.
    “La vita non è altro che chimica” e “la vita non è riducibile a chimica” sono due idee opposte dello storico problema di identificare la specificità del vivente. Sebbene siano due posizioni opposte, per entrambe la chimica è un punto di riferimento per “leggere” il vivente, è la prospettiva privilegiata in cui “interpretare” il vivente. La prospettiva di questo libro non è quella riduzionista, ma quella sistemica delle relazioni. La vita, come le altre proprietà emergenti, non si esaurisce nelle relazioni (...)
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  13. 2024-12-10
    Challenging The Process View of Action.Robin T. Bianchi - forthcoming - Manuscrito.
    There is an ongoing debate in the ontology of action about whether actions are processes, events, relations, or sui generis entities. This paper focuses on the process view, the view that actions are processes. I challenge it in two ways. First, I argue that some actions are not processes because their performance need not be associated with or accompanied by a process. Second, I critically discuss three main arguments that have been advanced to support the process view. My view, the (...)
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  14. 2024-12-10
    Proletarianization of the Mind:A Media Theory of Artificial Intelligence after Simondon and Stiegler.Anaïs Nony - 2024 - Tropos. Rivista di Ermeneutica e Critica Filosofica 16 (1):116-136.
    This article draws on Bernard Stiegler and Gilbert Simondon’s work to further interrogate the psychic, social, and political problems raised by the development of Artificial Intelligence. Stiegler’s political philosophy of time-consciousness reveals three concomitants urgencies: human memory is conditioned by industrial supplements that are increasingly disruptive, capitalism has produced an entropic condition where life on earth is threaten by toxic systems, the deployment of technologies of spirits has striped individuals of their psychic and collective individuation. I read media theory along (...)
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  15. 2024-12-10
    Johann Sturm.Christian Henkel & Andrea Sangiacomo - 2020 - Sep.
    This encyclopaedia entry studies the philosophy of Johann Christooh Sturm (1635 - 1704). Sturm was a philosopher, physicist, mathematician, and theologian. He corresponded with Leibniz and influenced Christian Wolff. This entry analyses Sturm's scientific method and his natural philosophy grounded in mechanism, occasionalism, and final causes. It shows Sturm's important role in seventeenth-century philosophy.
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  16. 2024-12-10
    Nhà mới cho anh bạn Anhinga mát hơn.B. Q. Khiêm - unknown
    Anh chàng Anhinga, còn gọi là chim cổ rắn, xuất trong hai bức tranh tiêu đề “Nóng” ngày 20/11/2023. Một năm sau, lại tìm được ngôi nhà mát mẻ hơn cho anh chàng. Chốn đó là xứ sở kỳ quặc, lắm chuyện kỳ khôi, nơi cư trú của ông Bói Cá, gọi là Xóm Chim. Chứ ở mãi trong Gallery mãi cũng chán.
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  17. 2024-12-10
    Wild Wise Weird: A Unique Blend of Wit, Culture, and Insight. [REVIEW]Henri Hubert - 2024 - Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
    Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
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  18. 2024-12-10
    Wild Wise Weird: A Charming Collection of Stories for Young Readers. [REVIEW]Sonal Will - 2024 - Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
    Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
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  19. 2024-12-10
    Ecocosmismo. Terrae Incognitae da Filosofia.Giovanbattista Tusa - 2024 - Florianópolis: Cultura e Barbárie.
    "Giovanbattista Tusa encontra palavras que não conseguem dissipar a inquietude e o terror da revolta ilegível dos elementos contra nosso modo de produção. A fúria da desregulamentação climática e a crise ecológica têm uma história e um destino previsível com os quais devemos entrar em contato. Este livro é um magnífico instrumento para nos ajudar a começar a realizar a tarefa mais urgente da humanidade contemporânea: a única que pode nos salvar." -/- Claire Fontaine.
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  20. 2024-12-10
    A Third Pillar for the Natural Sciences: the World of Chemistry.Giovanni Villani - manuscript
    In this communication, starting from the relationship between chemistry and biology, I would like to show that the chemical explanation of the material world is today universal and this deserves some philosophical consideration.
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  21. 2024-12-10
    Marc Parmentier, Archives du virtuel (Paris: Vrin, 2023), 14 x 20 cm, 848 pages, glossary, bibliogr., table. [REVIEW]Franck Varenne - 2024 - Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 77 (2):374-376.
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  22. 2024-12-10
    Grounding and Inference to the Best Explanation: A Novel Argument for Theism.Joshua Sijuwade - 2024 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 80 (4):925-70.
    This article presents a novel argument for the existence of God based on the metaphysical concept of grounding. Using the methodology of Inference to the Best Explanation, as conceptualised by Peter Lipton, it evaluates six foundationalist theories: Trope-Theoretic Theism, Monistic Substantivalism, Pure Stuff Theory, Mereological Bundle Theory, Extended Simples Theory, and Priority-Based Structural Realism-for their ability to explain the existence of grounding relations in reality. Through rigorous internal and external assessments focusing on coherence, simplicity, unification, and evidential virtues, the paper (...)
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  23. 2024-12-10
    Generative AI in the Creative Industries: Revolutionizing Art, Music, and Media.Mohammed F. El-Habibi, Mohammed A. Hamed, Raed Z. Sababa, Mones M. Al-Hanjori, Bassem S. Abu-Nasser & Samy S. Abu-Naser - 2024 - International Journal of Academic Engineering Research(Ijaer) 8 (10):71-74.
    Abstract: Generative AI is transforming the creative industries by redefining how art, music, and media are produced and experienced. This paper explores the profound impact of generative AI technologies, such as deep learning models and neural networks, on creative processes. By enabling artists, musicians, and content creators to collaborate with AI, these systems enhance creativity, speed up production, and generate novel forms of expression. The paper also addresses ethical considerations, including intellectual property rights, the role of human creativity in AI-assisted (...)
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  24. 2024-12-10
    Digital Duplicates and Collective Scarcity.Benjamin Lange - forthcoming - Philosophy and Technology.
    Digital duplicates reduce the scarcity of individuals and thus may impact their instrumental and intrinsic value. I here expand upon this idea by introducing the notion of collective scarcity, which pertains to the limitations faced by social groups in maintaining their size, cohesion, and function.
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  25. 2024-12-10
    No reason to focus on emotional episodes.Rodrigo Díaz - forthcoming - Les ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum.
    Christine Tappolet’s book Philosophy of Emotion: A contemporary introduction, and many other works in emotion theory, focus primarily on emotional episodes at the expense of so-called “emotional dispositions.” I argue that there are no reasons for theories of emotion to focus on emotional episodes, or to reserve the term “emotion” for emotional episodes.
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  26. 2024-12-10
    Proč Slunce svítí a hřeje? Pýthagorejci: Zrcadlo, zrcadlo, kdo je na světě nejzářivější?Pavel Matail - 2024 - Studia Philosophica 71 (1):57-64.
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  27. 2024-12-10
    Proč Slunce svítí a hřeje? : Míléťané: Oheň. Prostě oheň.Pavel Matail & Josef Petrželka - 2023 - Studia Philosophica 70 (2):77-81.
    The text is another contribution to a series of investigations into how the fact that the Sun shines and heats was explained in antiquity. In this case, the explanations of three Miletus philosophers - Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes - are examined.
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  28. 2024-12-10
    Scripts and Social Cognition: How We Interact with Others.Gen Eickers - 2024 - Routledge.
    This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts. Scripts play a central role in our ability to understand social interactions shaped by different contextual factors. -/- In philosophy of social cognition, scholars have asked what mechanisms we employ when interacting with other people or when cognizing about other people. Recent approaches acknowledge that social cognition and interaction depends heavily on contextual, cultural, and social factors that contribute to the way individuals make sense of (...)
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  29. 2024-12-10
    Univocity of Intuitionistic and Classical Connectives.Branden Fitelson & Rodolfo C. Ertola-Biraben - forthcoming - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic.
    In this paper, we show (among other things) that the conditional in Frege's Begriffsschrift is non-univocal.
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  30. 2024-12-10
    Varieties of Ideal Language Philosophy.Panu Raatikainen - 2023 - In _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 23-53.
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  31. 2024-12-10
    Descartes on Language: How Signification Leads to Direct Reference.Jani Sinokki - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 55-89.
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    Is Logic Normative?Anandi Hattiangadi - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 277-299.
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    The Semantics of Natural Kind Terms: A Critical Reflection on Experimental and Theoretical Issues.Genoveva Martí - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 153-172.
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  34. 2024-12-10
    Type Specimens and Reference.Michael Devitt - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 175-209.
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  35. 2024-12-10
    A Window into Vietnamese Culture Through Clever Fables. [REVIEW]Sandra Soler - 2024 - Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
    Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
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  36. 2024-12-10
    In Light of Bessarion’s Astronomical Manuscripts. A Global Microhistory of Science.Alberto Bardi - 2024 - Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Ca' Foscari University Press.
    This book challenges the narrative of the revival of Greek science during the early modern age and offers a global microhistory of the cross‑cultural legacy between the Arabo‑Persian and Hellenistic astronomical traditions, which converged through the efforts of Byzantine émigrés such as Bessarion. An examination of Bessarion’s life and manuscripts demonstrates that Byzantine astronomical texts were part of a rich hybrid culture that emerged from the encounter of these two traditions. This work intends to illustrate the global significance of this (...)
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  37. 2024-12-10
    ONDE ESTÁ NO SER O SER QUE É SEU PRÓPRIO NADA? Do nada lógico-metafísico ao nada ontológico-existencial entre Hegel, Heidegger e Sartre.Luiz Carlos Mariano da Rosa - 2024 - Agon (Ἀγών), Revista de Filosofia da Ufrgs - Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul (Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil) 4 (12):23-64.
    Investigando o Nada que, segundo Parmênides, caracteriza-se como absoluto não-ser e encerra a impossibilidade envolvendo o seu conhecimento e expressão e, de acordo com Platão, consiste na alteridade do ser e implica a afirmação do ser do não-ser, o artigo assinala que, se a perspectiva ontológico-metafísica da civilização ocidental traz como princípio determinante o legado epistêmico-filosófico de Parmênides e o processo de anulação do Nada, Hegel instaura uma interpretação que se sobrepõe a interpretação que assinala a negação como fundamento do (...)
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  38. 2024-12-10
    Standards for Belief Representations in LLMs.Daniel A. Herrmann & Benjamin A. Levinstein - 2024 - Minds and Machines 35 (1):1-25.
    As large language models (LLMs) continue to demonstrate remarkable abilities across various domains, computer scientists are developing methods to understand their cognitive processes, particularly concerning how (and if) LLMs internally represent their beliefs about the world. However, this field currently lacks a unified theoretical foundation to underpin the study of belief in LLMs. This article begins filling this gap by proposing adequacy conditions for a representation in an LLM to count as belief-like. We argue that, while the project of belief (...)
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  39. 2024-12-10
    Modeling teaching experiences and its predictors among high school educators.Leomarich Casinillo & Emily Casinillo - 2021 - Taran-Awan Journal of Educational Research and Technology Management 2 (1):83-93.
    Teaching experience is the key to becoming effective in imparting knowledge to students. This study aims to develop regression models to determine the various factors of teaching experiences among high school educators. A cross-section of teachers in a Vocational School in Hilongos, Leyte, Philippines was considered as participants in this study. Some descriptive measures and ordinary least square (OLS) regression were employed to describe and make inferences in the survey data, respectively. Results revealed that teachers are" very satisfied" in their (...)
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  40. 2024-12-10
    Another look at sensory attributes of broiler chickens fed with non-fermented and fermented diets.Gerald Rivera & Leomarich Casinillo - 2022 - Innovative Technology and Management Journal 5 (1):1-10.
    This study aimed to assess the sensory attributes and general acceptability of steamed meat of broiler chickens fed with non-fermented (control) and fermented diets. The study used water, water + coco vinegar, and water + RPL8+AKE probiotic as fermenting causal agents. A total of thirty (30) breast carcass (steamed at 100oC for 10-15 minutes) samples per treatment at five grams (5g) per sample were utilized for evaluation. A group of thirty trained taste panelists composed of Food Technology students assessed the (...)
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  41. 2024-12-10
    Sellars and Peirce on Truth and the End of Inquiry.Catherine Legg - forthcoming - In Carl Sachs (ed.), Interpreting Sellars: Critical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    Despite some notable similarities between the scientific realisms of Sellars and Peirce (such as both being anti-representationalist, and future-directed), in his mature work Science and Metaphysics Sellars explicitly critiqued Peirce’s account of truth, as lacking “an intelligible foundation” (Sellars 1968: vii). In this paper, I explore Sellars’ proposed remedy to Peirce’s purported lack, in his complex and enigmatic account of picturing – a non-discursive ‘mapping’ of the world. I argue that although Sellars’ development of this idea is largely sound, much (...)
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  42. 2024-12-10
    Complex Adaptation and Permissionless Innovation: An Evolutionary Approach to Universal Basic Income.Otto Lehto - 2022 - Dissertation, King's College London
    Universal Basic Income (UBI) has been proposed as a potential way in which welfare states could be made more responsive to the ever-shifting evolutionary challenges of institutional adaptation in a dynamic environment. It has been proposed as a tool of “real freedom” (Van Parijs) and as a tool of making the welfare state more efficient. (Friedman) From the point of view of complexity theory and evolutionary economics, I argue that only a welfare state model that is “polycentrically” (Polanyi, Hayek) organized (...)
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  43. 2024-12-09
    Utilizing early symptom recognition and electrocardiograph findings of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) to decrease mortality and morbidity in women experiencing acute coronary syndromes (ACS).Stone Johnson - unknown
    In this critical review of current diagnostic and treatment modalities regarding acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in women and females, several strategies that can be utilized to decrease the time from symptom onset to diagnosis and definitive treatment will be introduced. The primary focus of this monograph is to present a systematic methodology for the diagnosis of STEMI in the presence of atypical symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). There are both social and biological factors impacting the current lack (...)
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  44. 2024-12-09
    The Logit Model Measurement Problem.Stella Fillmore-Patrick - forthcoming - Philosophy of Science.
    Traditional wisdom dictates that statistical model outputs are estimates, not measurements. Despite this, statistical models are employed as measurement instruments in the social sciences. In this article, I scrutinize the use of a specific model—the logit model—for psychological measurement. Given the adoption of a criterion for measurement that I call comparability, I show that the logit model fails to yield measurements due to properties that follow from its fixed residual variance.
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  45. 2024-12-09
    Nostalgia como anhelo del presente que nunca llegó a ser.Jorge Montesó-Ventura - 2024 - Endoxa 54:217-239.
    La nostalgia se ha convertido en uno de los temples anímicos protagonistas a la hora de condicionar nuestro comportamiento dentro de las llamadas sociedades occidentales, se aprecia en fenómenos que cubren desde el consumo de ocio hasta el resurgir de movimientos de inspiración idealista que movilizan parte de las resistencias de hoy. En el presente artículo analizaremos dicha presencia contrastando la hipótesis que la nostalgia emerge como respuesta a la angustia que tales sociedades provocan en sus ciudadanos, sujetos que juzgan (...)
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  46. 2024-12-09
    The Logic of Existence.Pavel Gavr - manuscript
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  47. 2024-12-09
    What is an Animal Companion? Revisiting the Barnbaum-Varner Definition.Dustin Sigsbee - 2024 - Journal of Animal Ethics 14 (2):144-152.
    Many animal ethicists have shifted from using the term “pet” to the term “animal companion,” but what exactly is an animal companion? Arguably, the most comprehensive description of what an animal companion is comes from Gary Varner, who builds upon the work of Deborah Barnbaum. This article examines what I call the Barnbaum-Varner definition of an animal companion. I suggest that while the definition mostly captures what we think of when we think of an animal companion, there are potential philosophical (...)
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  48. 2024-12-09
    The Millerian Cosmological Argument: Arguing to God without the PSR.Patrick Flynn & Enric Gel - forthcoming - Nova et Vetera.
    We present and defend a Thomistic cosmological argument that runs independently of the principle of sufficient reason, sidestepping perhaps two of the most recurrent objections to cosmological reasoning: (a) the possibility of brute facts (i.e., that not everything needs an adequate explanation of its existence) and (b) the accusation of the composition fallacy. Drawing upon the work of Barry Miller, we show that any contingent entity like Thumper the rabbit, upon metaphysical analysis, is either a contradictory structure and therefore an (...)
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  49. 2024-12-09
    A Performative Feminist Hinge Epistemology: Making Room for Feminist Hinges.Carla Carmona & Ignacio Gómez-Ledo - forthcoming - Hypatia:1-22.
    In this paper, we propose a performative account of hinge epistemology to make the case for a feminist hinge epistemology. We characterize it as follows: 1) there are hinges that enable and govern our ordinary epistemic practices, functioning as rules; 2) these hinges are enacted and actualized in the specific actions of agents that participate in such practices; 3) this makes room for the transformation and emergence of hinges; 4) against this background, we argue in favor of the possibility of (...)
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  50. 2024-12-09
    Partial Political Neurosis in Organic Semiosis.Morteza Shahram - manuscript
    Earlier semioses (implicating at least sometimes political forces to establish a sign) enabled by anonymous intentions permeate later semioses and shape the structure of language. The same way earlier neuroses shape the epistemically embattled structure of unconscious.---Contingent but primordial relations of power semiotically implicated, on both sides of inter-translation of geo-linguistically distant languages, so effectively permeate language and literature that there is ever an ineradicable textual residue in the translation reminiscent of contexts of exercises of power.---Every belated text a corollary (...)
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  51. 2024-12-09
    The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference: Some Afterthoughts.Gabriel Sandu - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 137-150.
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  52. 2024-12-09
    The Valuationist Model of Human Agent Architecture: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter for Philosophy?Chandra Sripada - manuscript
    In computational cognitive science, a valuationist picture of human agent architecture has become widespread. At the heart of valuationism is a simple and sweeping claim: Every time an agent acts, they do so on the basis of value representations, which are, roughly, representations of the expected value of one’s response options. In this essay, I do three things. First, I give a systematic, philosophically rich account of the valuationist picture of agency. I also highlight the generality of the model in (...)
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  53. 2024-12-09
    Iranian Women’s Uprising: Lessons for Euro-American Academic Feminism.Paria Gashtili - 2024 - Hypatia (First View):1-9.
    This paper reflects on representations of the convergence of Islam and feminism in light of the recent uprising of Iranian women. Most of the existing literature discussing Muslim women’s rights are locked in a dichotomy of approaches, one being prejudicial and the other apologetic. The prejudicial approach is a (neo-)Orientalist one. It understands Muslim societies as backward and their redemption in abandoning Islam and following the lead of the “West.” The apologetic approach is a multiculturalist one, advocating most prominently by (...)
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  54. 2024-12-09
    Navigating Nonidentity.Desa Valeska Martin - 2024 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 29 (1):86-106.
    Scanlonian contractualism has difficulties to account for our moral obligations to future generations due to the nonidentity problem. A prominent solution is to refer to the more general standpoints or types of future persons in moral deliberation. This paper critically examines the “types-of-persons approach” and identifies two alternative versions that have been conflated so far. The types-of-persons approach could claim that the relevant reasons for objection are either (a) the reasons of types of persons, or (b) type-based reasons of token (...)
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  55. 2024-12-09
    THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUPERDETERMINISM AND THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSALITY.John Bannan - manuscript
    The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. In 2020, accomplished Swedish theoretical physicist, Dr. Johan Hansson published a physics proof using Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity that our universe is superdeterministic meaning a predetermined static block universe without cause and effect in physics. Some argue that Special Relativity is premised on the principle of causality, and therefore, Dr. Hansson’s use of Special Relativity (...)
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  56. 2024-12-09
    A Transcendental Approach to Dream Skepticism.Simone Nota - 2024 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 43 (3):15-37.
    [Winner of the Teorema Essay Prize for Young Scholars 2024]. How can we know we are not dreaming? In this essay, I tackle this and related questions from a transcendental standpoint, by building a philosophical narrative centred upon three “giants”: Descartes, Kant, and Putnam. From each, I take some ideas and discard some others, with the aim of developing a historically informed, yet original, transcendental approach to dream skepticism. I argue that dreams can be distinguished from objective cognitions, since they (...)
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  57. 2024-12-09
    Unified (Enough) Metasemantics for Expressivists.Teemu Toppinen & Vilma Venesmaa - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 413-440.
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  58. 2024-12-09
    Invisible-Hand Explanations: From Blindness to Lack of We-ness (3rd edition).Emma Tieffenbach - 2013 - Social Science Information 52 (3):450-470.
    The unintendedness of the phenomenon that is to be explained is a constraint visible in the various applications and clarifications of invisible-hand explanations. The article casts doubt on such a requirement and proposes a revised account. To have a role in an invisible-hand process, it is argued, agents may very well act with a view to contributing to the occurrence of the social outcome that is to be explained, provided they see what they do as an aggregation of their individual (...)
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  59. 2024-12-09
    The Communication Philosophy Model (15th edition).Felisianus Efrem Jelahut - 2024 - Lumen Veritatis: Jurnal Filsafat Dan Teologi 15 (02):213-222. Translated by Efrem Jelahut.
    The aim of this research is to find a model of communication philosophy as a form of relevance to the discourse of ontology, epistemology and axiology. This research uses a qualitative method using a library study approach that uses books or literature as the main source. The library references in the form of books which are primary sources in this research are first, a book entitled On the Philosophy of Communication 1st Edition by Garry Rafford, second, a book entitled Aristotle's (...)
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  60. 2024-12-09
    Virtual Anthropology: When and What Could We Learn From Multimodal Agentic Behavior in Generative Worlds?Fabian Kerj - manuscript
    This paper examines the convergence of large language models, multimodal AI, and generative spatial technologies to enable sophisticated simulated worlds for studying agentic behavior. Recent developments in generative architectures, particularly GenEx and topology-aware mesh generation, facilitate the creation of coherent, explorable environments with artificial agents capable of complex interactions. The proposed framework for "virtual anthropology" presents novel opportunities for studying emergent behaviors and cognitive processes in controlled, generative environments, with implications for both theoretical research and practical applications in artificial intelligence.
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  61. 2024-12-09
    Mechanism, Occasionalism and Final Causes in Johann Christoph Sturm’s Physics.Christian Henkel - 2021 - Early Science and Medicine 26 (4):314-340.
    This paper argues that mechanism, occasionalism and finality (the acceptance of final causes) can be and were de facto integrated into a coherent system of natural philosophy by Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703). Previous scholarship has left the relation between these three elements understudied. According to Sturm, mechanism, occasionalism and finality can count as explanatorily useful elements of natural philosophy, and they might go some way to dealing with the problem of living beings. Occasionalism, in particular, serves a unifying ground: It (...)
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  62. 2024-12-09
    The Dual Character of Essentially Contested Concepts.Joonas Pennanen - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 371-410.
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  63. 2024-12-09
    Toward a New Analysis of Conditional Probability.Kaneko Yusuke - 2024 - The Basis : The Annual Bulletin of Research Center for Liberal Education, Musashino University 14 (1):213-227.
    This article is mainly composed of two discussions. First, we introduce event-expressions, individual constants of a new type referring to events, not things. We learn this from Davidson’s famous formulation of event-sentences (§§1-3). The first half or more of this article is occupied with this discussion. The second half is devoted to the creation of a new analysis of probability, especially conditional probability. As seen in the author’s other work (Kaneko 2022), probability theory can be reconstructed with predicate logic in (...)
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  64. 2024-12-09
    Rearticulated Psychological View of Generics and Worldly Truthmakers.Pasi Valtonen - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 345-368.
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  65. 2024-12-09
    Martin Heidegger’s Critical Confrontation with the Concept of Truth as Validity.Joshua D. F. Hooke - 2024 - Open Philosophy 7 (1):1-20.
    My primary goal in this article is to provide a historical reconstruction of Heidegger’s relationship to Hermann Lotze’s logic of validity (Logik der Gültigkeit). Lotze’s characterization of truth’s “actuality” solidifies the fallacious presupposition that the essence of truth is to be understood primarily in terms of logical assertions. In Heidegger’s view, the predicates “true” and “false,” as the paradigmatic attributes of propositions and judgments, are derivatives of a fundamental and “primary being of truth” known as disclosedness (Erschlossenheit). Heidegger marks this (...)
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  66. 2024-12-09
    Making Migrants’ Input Invisible: Intersections of Privilege and Otherness From a Multilevel Perspective.Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck - 2022 - Social Inclusion 10 (1):184–193.
    some years, the German public has been debating the case of migrant workers receiving German benefits for children living abroad, which has been scandalised as a case of “benefit tourism.” This points to a failure to recognise a striking imbalance between the output of the German welfare state to migrants and the input it receives from migrant domestic workers. In this article I discuss how this input is being rendered invisible or at least underappreciated by sexist, racist, and classist practices (...)
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  67. 2024-12-09
    Conscious Thought under Sensory Deprivation: Avicenna's Flying Man and 'I'.Mahrad Almotahari - forthcoming - The Monist.
    This paper offers a new take on Avicenna's Flying Man, one that explains why it's better than its Cartesian counterpart.
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  68. 2024-12-09
    Conceptual Engineering for Externalists.Jussi Haukioja - 2023 - In Panu Raatikainen (ed.), _Essays in the Philosophy of Language._ Acta Philosophica Fennica Vol. 100. Helsinki: Societas Philosophica Fennica. pp. 211-224.
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  69. 2024-12-09
    'সভ্যতাগতভাবে' রূপান্তরিত রাষ্ট্র: দায় ও দরদের সন্ধানে.Kazi Huda - 2024 - In World Philosophy Day 2024 Souvenir. Dhaka: Department of Philosophy, University of Dhaka. pp. 41-44.
    The paper argues that the concept of a civilizationally transformed state envisions a new governance paradigm that emphasizes moral values, collective responsibility, and compassion over traditional ideas of sovereignty and legality. This model emerges from the failure of conventional states to address global crises like climate change, economic instability, and democratic erosion. It proposes a state that prioritizes human dignity, justice, and the common good. Drawing from philosophical traditions such as Ubuntu, it seeks to foster mutual accountability and elevate compassion (...)
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  70. 2024-12-09
    مدخل كايزن"Kaizen" للتحسين المستمر وعلاقته بالتغيير التنظيمي في شركة توزيع الكهرباء بمحافظات غزة.Mohammaed Abed ُEshteiwy - 2018 - Journal of Al-Quds Open University for Administrative and Economic Research 3 (10):14-35.
    هدفت الدراسة إلى بيان علاقة مدخل كايزن"Kaizen" للتحسين المستمر بالتغيير التنظيمي في شركة توزيع الكهرباء بمحافظات غزة الخمس، حيث طبقت الدراسة على عينة عشوائية بسيطة كان عدد مفرداتها (233) مثلت ما نسبته (58%) من مجتمع الدراسة الكلي. حيث اعتمدت الدراسة على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، مستخدمة الاستبانة كأداة لجمع البيانات، وقد خرجت الدراسة بعدد من النتائج كان منها أن الشركة تمارس أبعاد مدخل كايزن للتحسين المستمر بنسبة (63.06%) وهي نسبة متوسطة. وأنها تمارس التغيير التنظيمي بواقع (61.40%) وهي بنسبة متوسطة. وتبين بأن (...)
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  71. 2024-12-09
    The Boundaries of Cognitive Closure: Argument for Mysterianism in the Philosophy of Consciousness.Danil Kutnyy - manuscript
    The "hard problem" of consciousness has long been debated in philosophy, with mysterianism suggesting that it may be inherently unsolvable due to cognitive or epistemic limitations. This paper introduces a new argument for mysterianism, drawing on insights from the complexity of artificial neural networks. Using a simple multilayer neural network trained to classify images as an example, it is shown that even understanding a single artificial neuron’s role in information processing can be beyond our cognitive capabilities. When considering the complexity (...)
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  72. 2024-12-09
    Communicating Understanding.Adham El Shazly - forthcoming - Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
    Knowledge can be transmitted through testimony. What about understanding? In this paper I argue against the possibility of testimonial understanding by giving an account of understanding in terms of ‘mental structures’. Then I argue while we cannot integrate communicating understanding into a propositional model of epistemic communication, we can do so on a perspectival model. I highlight the importance of this to the epistemology of education throughout.
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  73. 2024-12-09
    Guiding principles in physics.Enno Fischer - 2024 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (4):1-20.
    Guiding principles are central to theory development in physics, especially when there is only limited empirical input available. Here I propose an approach to such principles looking at their heuristic role. I suggest a distinction between two modes of employing scientific principles. Principles of nature make descriptive claims about objects of inquiry, and principles of epistemic action give directives for further research. If a principle is employed as a guiding principle, then its use integrates both modes of employment: guiding principles (...)
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  74. 2024-12-09
    Road Safety Policy in Addis Ababa: A Vision Zero Perspective.Henok Girma Abebe - 2022 - Sustainability 14 (9).
    In this article, the Addis Ababa city road safety policies are examined and analysed based on the Vision Zero approach to road safety work. Three major policy documents are explored and assessed in terms of how they compare with Vision Zero policy in Sweden, concerning how road safety problems are conceptualised, the responsibility ascriptions promoted, the nature of goal setting concerning road safety objectives, and the specific road safety interventions promoted. It is concluded that there is a big difference between (...)
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  75. 2024-12-09
    Epiphanies and Aspirations: How Psychedelic Experiences Affect Values.Juuso Kähönen - 2024 - In Rob Lovering (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
    In chapter “Epiphanies and Aspirations: How Psychedelic Experiences Affect Values”, Juuso Kähönen attempts to provide a better understanding of psychedelic drug-induced value changes and reconnections in the user. And he does so by examining the relation between epiphanic transformative experiences, on the one hand, and aspirations—both before and after said experiences—on the other. Specifically, Kähönen argues that psychedelic experiences can temporarily expand, both in width and depth, one’s understanding of values, thereby producing epiphanic transformative experiences and inspiring long-term aspirations toward (...)
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  76. 2024-12-09
    Rách chỗ nào mà cần vá?Nguyễn Minh Hoàng - unknown
    Trước đây, trong hoàn cảnh chiến tranh, thiếu thốn vật chất, đói nghèo, sự mất mát luôn thường trực, chúng ta đã phải dựa vào ý chí và trí tuệ để sáng tạo, thích nghi, tìm kiếm giải pháp, và vượt qua nghịch cảnh, từ đó xây dựng nên cuộc sống như ngày hôm nay. Mặc dù hiện tại cuộc sống vẫn còn không ít thiếu sót, nhưng nó vẫn tốt đẹp và đầy đủ hơn rất nhiều so với trước (...)
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  77. 2024-12-09
    A Mesmerizing Anthology among Copycats. [REVIEW]Anthony Michael Sansone & Jacob K. - 2024 - Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
    Amazon Book Review Series of “Wild Wise Weird”.
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  78. 2024-12-09
    Normativity in cases of Epistemic Indifference.Müller Basil & Rodrigo Diaz - forthcoming - Episteme.
    One of metaepistemology’s most central debates revolves around the question of what the source of epistemic normativity is. Epistemic instrumentalism claims that epistemic normativity is a species of means-ends normativity. One of the most prominent objections against epistemic instrumentalism features cases of epistemic indifference: Cases where there’s evidence that p yet believing that p wouldn’t promote any of the agent’s aims, wants, or needs. Still, there’s an epistemic reason for the agent to believe that p and thus epistemic instrumentalism is (...)
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  79. 2024-12-09
    (1 other version)Constitutivism's Plight: Inescapability, Normativity, and Relativism.Olof Leffler - forthcoming - The Philosophical Quarterly.
    Constitutivists often argue that agency is inescapable. This is supposed to, among other things, explain why norms that are constitutive of agency are forceful. But can some form of inescapability do that? I consider four types of inescapability—psychological, further factor, standpoint, and plight—and evaluate whether they manage to explain four necessary features of normative force: that it does not vary with desire change, that ought-implies-can and can-fail, and that we are criticizable for failing to live up to forceful norms. The (...)
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  80. 2024-12-09
    Authority-Based Accountability is Causally Extended Accountability: On Saba Bazargan-Forward’s Authority, Cooperation, and Accountability.Olle Blomberg - 2024 - Journal of Social Ontology 10 (4):8-19.
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  81. 2024-12-09
    Las vacunas no son suficientes: las pandemias de violencias y la Filosofía para la paz están transformando el mundo.Daniel Oviedo Sotelo - 2020 - Kuaapy Ayvu 11 (11):13-38.
    The pandemic of the 21st century has disrupted the existence of humans and other living beings. In this "new reality", peace research provides an indispensable theoretical framework for interpretating the present and the future (prospects). Thus, from this interdisciplinary field, resorting to a logical and hermeneutic analysis of events (through representative examples and situations), the different types of violence are introduced, as they have been developed by their main theorists. Our current situation and its vicissitudes are analysed, with emphasis on (...)
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  82. 2024-12-09
    Recognizing the Anti-Mysticism Polemic in Genesis Rabbah: A Bourdieusian Reading.David H. Aaron - 2023 - Hebrew Union College Annual 94:135-186.
    Midrash Genesis Rabbah takes aim at a variety of ideological adversaries, but the most subtle polemic is directed at sages who went beyond standard hermeneutical practices to embrace mystical approaches to Torah learning. This essay seeks to expose the use of satire and other literary forms of critique among passages treating cosmology and Torah study. Analytic tools developed by Pierre Bourdieu, especially as they pertain to exposing the use of the symbolic language intrinsic to the establishment of systems of social (...)
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  83. 2024-12-09
    Recognizing the Anti-Mystical Polemic in Genesis Rabbah: A Bourdieusian Reading.David H. Aaron - 2023 - Hebrew Union College Annual 94:135-186.
    Midrash Genesis Rabbah takes aim at a variety of ideological adversaries, but the most subtle polemic is directed at sages who went beyond standard hermeneutical practices to embrace mystical approaches to Torah learning. This essay seeks to expose the use of satire and other literary forms of critique among passages treating cosmology and Torah study. Analytic tools developed by Pierre Bourdieu, especially as they pertain to exposing the use of the symbolic language intrinsic to the establishment of systems of social (...)
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  84. 2024-12-08
    Real interests, well-being, and ideology critique.Pablo Gilabert - forthcoming - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy.
    In a common, pejorative sense of it, ideology consists in attitudes whose presence contributes to sustaining, by making them seem legitimate, social orders that are problematic. An important way a social order can be problematic concerns the prospects for well-being facing the people living in it. It can make some people wind up worse off than they could and should be. They have “real interests” that are not properly served by the social order, and the interests aligned with it are (...)
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  85. 2024-12-08
    Social Science and the Naturalization of Social Metaphysics: Old Biases and New Advances.Amanda Bryant - forthcoming - Journal of Social Ontology.
    Some philosophers challenge the advisability of naturalizing social metaphysics by appeal to social science. They argue that social science fails to meet criteria for realist commitment, such as unity and novel predictive power, and that social science would therefore be a poor basis for naturalization. These skeptical challenges are rooted in traditions in the philosophy of science that have held the social sciences in poor esteem. Through a case study that highlights the ways in which archaeology is methodologically converging on (...)
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  86. 2024-12-08
    Thinking the Pure and Empty Form of Dead Time. Individuation and Creation of Thinking in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy of Time.Torbjørn Eftestøl - 2024 - Open Philosophy 7 (1).
    In his account of the individuation and creation of thinking in Difference and Repetition Gilles Deleuze claims that there belongs “an experience of death.” What does this mean and imply for an attempt to come to terms with Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism? The following article presents a reading that explores this question, arguing that Deleuze’s account of what it means to think has two aspects that must be understood in relation to each other. On the one hand, Deleuze’s ontology of intensive (...)
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  87. 2024-12-08
    Photons and Perception.Albert Halliday - manuscript
    This short paper will argue that light waves are a barrier to visual knowledge of the objective world: that light is not transparent, in that it is a block on all possible knowledge of real objects, and that the objective world is permanently closed to the eye of the observer. (This is a shorter version of my original paper of this title.) .
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  88. 2024-12-08
    COMPLEXITY VALUATIONS: A GENERAL SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK FOR PROPOSITIONAL LANGUAGES.Juan Pablo Jorge, Hernán Luis Vázquez & Federico Holik - forthcoming - Actas Del Xvii Congreso Dr. Antonio Monteiro.
    A general mathematical framework, based on countable partitions of Natural Numbers [1], is presented, that allows to provide a Semantics to propositional languages. It has the particularity of allowing both the valuations and the interpretation Sets for the connectives to discriminate complexity of the formulas. This allows different adequacy criteria to be used to assess formulas associated with the same connective, but that differ in their complexity. The presented method can be adapted potentially infinite number of connectives and truth values, (...)
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  89. 2024-12-08
    Review of David. E. Cooper, Pessimism, Quietism, and Nature as Refuge. [REVIEW]Ian James Kidd - forthcoming - Religious Studies.
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  90. 2024-12-08
    Teoría de la Mente en animales: fundamentación y alternativas.Juan Pablo Jorge - 2024 - Buenos Aires: Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Austral..
    Varios enfoques teóricos y disciplinas se han comprometido con el problema de nuestra relación cognitiva con los animales (e incluso entre ellos). De qué forma lograr el mejor acercamiento es aún un tema controversial. En este trabajo, analizamos algunas de las posibilidades presentadas en los últimos años. Cuando el acceso cognitivo al psiquismo animal se realiza por vía naturalista, abierta a la psicología, una de las alternativas brindadas es la llamada Teoría de la Mente (ToM). La Teoría de la mente, (...)
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  91. 2024-12-08
    Her Parasites: A poetic ecospiritual perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic and nature’s intelligence.Komathi Kolandai - 2024 - Journal of Ecohumanism 3 (2):189-213.
    In this transdisciplinary perspective, I present my initial ecospiritual thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic in a poem, titled Her Parasites. I identify with other thinkers – both those in science and not – who articulated ecophilosophical musings about the pandemic in various ways, some of whom were met with mockery and censure. In the hope that it will inspire openness and a sense of curiosity, I draw on metaphysical insights from Vedic treatises and the literature on environmental decline, zoonotic epidemiology, (...)
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  92. 2024-12-08
    U5 Theory; CQ SV Probabilities.William Keefe - manuscript - Translated by William Keefe.
    Within the meaning of life can be reasoned with math and statistics a surfaced 50% chance of there being to not be a relevant meaning to life with non relevancy being no meaning, and vice versa. Within the 50% of logical meaning it can be reasoned that a larger purpose to life will be innate and common across it, culminating in two proposed solutions to the deeper problem being Conquest Theory and Survival Theory, which both operate in the bounds of (...)
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  93. 2024-12-08
    The electric charge.Sydney Ernest Grimm - manuscript
    In physics most phenomena in the microcosm have some kind of an explanatory description. But at the smallest scale size there exists no description of an underlying “tangible” explanatory structure. That is why the description of the origin of the electric charge is more or less lim­ited to a link to particles that carry the electric charge.
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  94. 2024-12-08
    Reflectivedocumentation in arts education. Expanding ways of thinking through multimodal, embodied practices.Eeva Anttila, Taneli Tuovinen & Liisa Jaakonaho - 2024 - Research in Arts and Education 2024 (3):122-137.
    Purpose of this article is to describe the development of a pedagogical research approach entitled reflective documentation. Context for this inquiry is an Erasmus+ project entitled Pedagogy of Imaginative Dialogues (PIMDI). The practical examples are drawn from the PIMDI project. For fuller appreciation of the multimodal nature of reflective work and reflective documentation, we have created an exposition on Research Catalogue portal. As the outcome of this artistic pedagogical research project, we propose that reflective documentation can be seen in connection (...)
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  95. 2024-12-08
    Elise Reimarus y la discusión entre Moses Mendelssohn y F. H. Jacobi sobre el spinozismo de G.E. Lessing. Una reflexión en torno a la visibilización de la mujer en la historiografía del pensamiento.Guillem Sales Vilalta - 2019 - Alfa: Revista de la Asociación Andaluza de Filosofía 35:537-551.
    Our essay will be focused in the epistolary relation that Elise Reimarus (1735-1805) maintained with Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) and F.H. Jacobi (1743-1819) because of the discussion begun by Jacobi after claiming G.E. Lessing (1729-1783) to be a “spinozist”. The analysis of Reimarus’ intervention will be divided in two parts: in the first one, we will shortly contextualize de discussion by giving the tenets of Lessing’s thought that justify Jacobi’s claim; secondly, we will offer an sketch of Elise’s biography in order (...)
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  96. 2024-12-08
    Procreation evolution of living organisms on earth.Kong Derick Njikeh - manuscript
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  97. 2024-12-08
    Stories that Move Us: The Intersection of Fiction and Moral Engagement.Manh-Tung Ho - manuscript
    In this essay, I am going to explain how my moral intuitions are engaged with my beloved fictions: The Lifecyle of software objects (Ted Chiang, 2010); Wild Wise Weird: The Kingfisher stories collection (Vuong, 2024), The three-body problem (Liu Cixin, 2014). Indeed, stories move us and deepen our understanding of what it means to be human, and great story-tellers achieve what even the greatest philosophers aspire to: making us reflect on our shared humanity.
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  98. 2024-12-08
    English Premier League Football Predictions.Destiny Agboro - manuscript
    This research project utilized advanced computer algorithms to predict the outcomes of Premier League soccer matches. The dataset containing match data and odds from seasons was processed to handle missing information, select features and reduce complexity using Principal Component Analysis. To address imbalances, in the target variable Synthetic Minority Over sampling Technique (SMOTE) was employed. Various machine learning models such as RandomForest, DecisionTree, SVM, XGBoost and LightGBM were evaluated.
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  99. 2024-12-08
    Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection Framework for Detecting Security Attacks in Internet of Things.Jones Serena - manuscript
    The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed various industries by enabling smart environments and improving operational efficiencies. However, this expansion has introduced numerous security vulnerabilities, making IoT systems prime targets for cyberattacks. This paper proposes a machine learning-based intrusion detection framework tailored to the unique characteristics of IoT environments. The framework leverages feature engineering, advanced machine learning algorithms, and real-time anomaly detection to identify and mitigate security threats effectively. Experimental results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed approach (...)
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  100. 2024-12-08
    Improving Urban Planning and Smart City Initiatives with Artificial Intelligence.Stubb Joanson - manuscript
    The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly impacted urban environments, facilitating the development of smart cities. This paper examines how AI technologies are reshaping urban ecosystems by fostering innovation and promoting sustainability. It explores the integration of AI in critical sectors such as transportation, energy management, waste management, and governance. The study also addresses challenges, including data privacy, ethical considerations, and the digital divide, offering insights into future research and policy directions. Smart cities serve as testbeds for innovative AI (...)
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